Grace Han is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History (Film and Media Studies track) at Stanford University, where she thinks about digital animation aesthetics under the supervision of Shane Denson. Her dissertation, “Encounters with the Generative Archive,” examines an array of contemporary artists who use generative media (CGI and generative AI) to “fill in the gaps” of their archives. She also co-coordinates Digital Aesthetics: A Stanford Humanities Research Workshop, is a Tomatometer-approved film critic, and serves as the Secretary for GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Prior to her studies at Stanford, Grace completed her BA with Honors at UNC-Chapel Hill (2018) and a MA with Distinction at The Courtauld Institute of Art (2020), and received the Society for Animation Studies’ Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media (2019). She has also previously served as a co-admin for Asian Movie Pulse (2020-2022) and Film/TV Reviews Editor for Fantasy/Animation (2021-2023). She is also a fond alumnus of the Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Toronto Media Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Telluride Student Symposium (2021), GoCritic! at Animafest Zagreb (2019), and Campus Movie Fest at Cannes (2019).

For film coverage, she prefers to cover emerging Asian diaspora, queer cinemas, and animation-related talent. She has previously been consulted on AAPI cinema and AI art for BBC Culture and Mubi Notebook, written about independent Korean cinema, and has contributed to The Alan Turing Institute, Association for Chinese Animation Studies, Hyperallergic, Cineuropa, and more. In her free time, she likes to read comics and garden (that is, touch grass).

If you have any press requests, academic inquiries, or would like to talk about animation in general, feel free to reach her through her email (ghahahan@stanford.edu). CV is also available upon request.